Avoid if you're age 12 or older.

Rating: 5/10 (22 July 2013)

Godzilla-like monsters are attacking coastal cities, and giant robots are constructed to fight them. You know it's going to be a mindless action movie. But with Guillermo del Toro directing and co-writing, I expected more.
It was awful. At least most kid's movies put in something for adults, but this one was painful. Sure, the visuals and grandeur were very impressive, and I didn't go in with high hopes of a complex story or a terribly memorable script, but I was certainly not expecting such painful doses of cheese and heavy-handed Lessons about Friendship and Family that turned it into a cartoon for young kids. Some acting might have been nice, too; the writing and performances were mostly cringe-worthy.
There were a couple of nice scenes concerning the hazards of interfacing the pilots' minds with the robot controls, but otherwise, it was a predictable, insulting exercise in ridiculous, physics-defying scenario-building and advertising for a range of action figure toys.